About this course: This course teaches you the concepts of risk and expected return. This course presents an overview of the basic concepts and techniques used to construct financial portfolios. You will learn about the investment process and get a very good understanding of economic, industry, and company analyses. We will also look at understanding and interpreting major portfolio management and risk concepts. Through this course, you will discover the basic concepts of Modern Portfolio Theory. In the second half of the course we explore the frameworks to measure investment performance, as well as the various measures of investment performance. Finally, you will learn how to measure performance of equity, bonds and hedge funds. After completing this course, you will be able to appreciate the details that go into the creation of investment portfolios.
Taught by: Ramabhadran Thirumalai, Assistant Professor
Indian School of Business
| Basic Info | Course 2 of 5 in the Financial Markets and Investment Strategy Specialization |
| Level | Beginner |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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- Video: Introduction
- Video: Investment Process
- Video: Investment Philosophies
- Reading: 6 Different Investment Philosophies
- Reading: Common Investment Strategies of Fund Managers
- Video: Introduction to Time Value of Money
- Video: Ordinary Annuity
- Video: Compounding frequency and Effective Annual Rate
- Video: Annuity Due
- Video: Perpetuities and stock valuation
- Video: Expected returns and risk
- Video: Utility theory
- Reading: Utility theory and Attitude toward Risk
- Video: Investment Choices and Portfolios
- Video: Capital Allocation
- Video: Risky portfolios
- Video: Diversification and efficient frontier
- Video: Two fund separation
- Video: Diversification revisited
- Reading: The pros' guide to diversification
- Reading: Diversification: How much is too much?
- Reading: The 15-Stock Diversification Myth
- Video: Investment opportunity set with two risky assets and a risk-free asset
- Video: Investment opportunity set with three risky assets and a risk-free asset
- Video: The optimal allocation between risky and risk-free assets
- Video: The market portfolio and the capital market line
- Reading: Does the composition of the market portfolio really matter?
- Video: The CAPM
- Video: Calculating the CAPM beta
- Reading: Does the Capital Asset Pricing Model Work?
- Video: The security market line
- Video: Equilibrium
- Video: Disequilibrium
- Video: Estimating beta from data
- Video: Miscellaneous topics on beta
- Video: Determinants of the market risk premium
- Video: Multifactor models
- Video: The arbitrage pricing theory
- Reading: Multifactor Models
- Video: Identifying arbitrage opportunities
- Video: The arbitrage-free price
- Video: Commonly-used risk factors
- Video: Dividend discount models
- Video: The growth rate of dividends
- Video: Valuation based on comparable firms
- Video: The PEG ratio and other valuation multiples
- Video: Measuring portfolio or fund returns
- Video: Benchmarks for portfolio performance evaluation
- Video: Alternate performance measures
- Reading: The Challenge: How To Benchmark Your Investment Portfolio
- Reading: Performance Measurement: The What, Why, and How of the Investment Management Process
- Reading: The 101 ways to measure portfolio performance
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Thank you very much Ramabhadran Thirumalai Sir
This course is very helpful for learners. explaining method and class slides all are well organised.
course went smoothly.
The professor did a great job simplifying the material down. The short videos really helped me get acclimated to the format of Coursera. The examples were very clear and easy to understand.
This course is very helpful to really get a taste of the financial models used for investing. If you are one of those who love to break down a problem and base your decisions on an in depth analysis, then this is the course for you. This course only talks about stocks and not other financial securities, however the main advantage of this course is that you would learn concepts, ideas and logics that could very well be extended to other financial securities. The course is easy to understand but it is always a good idea to have basics of economics and mathematics brushed up beforehand.
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